On 5/20/05, Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone else get sick of hearing this?
> 
> quote (emphasis mine) from :
> http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/20/1426216&tid=8
> 
> OpenBSD is a complete, relatively small-footprint, Unix-derived
> operating system. Originally forked from NetBSD in 1996, ****the project
> has suffered only one remote security flaw in the default installation
> in more than eight years.****
> 
> 
> It's the "default installation" part that bugs me.  How hard is it to
> turn off some services?  I don't mean to detract from what they are
> doing - in fact, I'm quite interested in where they are going with
> 3.7.
> 
> I guess I'm just saying it gets old.

It sounds like you're assuming that they do this by disabling
services.  Last time I installed OpenBSD (some time ago, I'll admit) I
think it came with sendmail and apache running (and probably some
other stuff) in the default install.  So secure by default really does
mean something.
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